if the "couple of bucks" ends up being the cost of an entire team, then hire a small team to do it. Then get mad at them because they don't "produce value", an

if the "couple of bucks" ends up being the cost of an entire team, then hire a small team to do it. Then get mad at them because they don't "produce value", and fold it into a developers job with an even higher level of abstraction again. This is what we always do.